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Grade K, Writing Benchmark I: Use available technology and information resources to reinforce and support writing in all content areas (COS 12)

Lesson Plans: Dan, the Flying Man Comes to Our Town After reading Dan, the Flying Man, students make a class book describing what Dan would fly over if he came to our town. Introduction to Computers and the Internet A series of lesson plans introducing beginning computer and literacy skills Computer Chunking Center Students will visit the computer at center time to add to a list of word with a common element. Classroom ABC Book This lesson incorporates the digital camera and desktop publishing into a class book that is enjoyable and educational to make and upon completion it will become a treasured part of your classroom library. Making Gingerbread Cookies This lesson is part of a larger thematic unit that uses the familiar tale of The Gingerbread Man to introduce and build upon early literacy skills. The lesson uses a digital camera and Interactive Writing on the computer to create a book showing the sequence of a cooking activity. Safari Sentence Scramble The purpose of this lesson is to provide children with an opportunity to respond to a real life experience such as a field trip to a zoo. They will describe animals to create sentences using the pattern found in the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Alphatech Using a digital camera and a computer, students will assist the teacher in creating an alphabet slide show for the association of beginning sounds and letters. Painting the Alphabet After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.

Resources: Mouse Handwriting: Practice forming the letters with the computer mouse I Spy: Online word play games for all grades Language Arts Games: Online language arts games for all grade levels Kid Pix Phonemic Activities: These activities can be used with Kid Pix to reinforce phonemic awareness. Building Language For Literacy: This game for younger students has them identify objects, rhyming words, and letters. Each of the characters leads to a different type of game. Poetry Playground: Funny poems, games, contests, streaming audio and more Game Station: Writer's Block Here kids join together to build a story block by block!
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